Hanford High School - Janus Yearbook (Hanford, CA)

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The Town Band, IB96 souTh. The l-lanTord band led To The scene a marching conTingenT in which were rep- resenTed The 6.A.R., The Boys' Brigade, and The pupils oT The school. Clara Viney, on behalf oT The pupils, presenTed a Tlag To The school. A. W. Lane presidenT oT The board of TrusTees, made a speech oT accepTance. America was sung, There was a Tlag saluTe, and David Gamble handed over The lceys To The building. Then Tollowed an address by J. W. Graham, CounTy SuperinTendenT of Schools, and addresses by Franlc Dodge and The Reverend J. L. Blaclc. The school sang LeT The l-lills and Vales Resoundf' and Earle Fisher reciTed Our l-ligh School, a poem by The Reverend l-l. W. WalTz oT Grange- ville. ln January, I896, Miss Phoebe Lee l-losmer was added To The TaculTy, making The Third member. During This period more elemenTary disTricTs were being added To The high school union disTricT, and enrollmenT increased To such an exTenT ThaT addiTional space was needed. WiTh ThaT need in view, The TrusTees purchased Tour more adiacenT loTs and called upon The disTricT To voTe bonds Tor SI0,000 To build an annex. On February l8, l905, The issue was deTeaTed, buT in a second elecTion, April 21, iT carried. l-lowever, The bonds could noT be sold because no elecTion had been held in The Oalcvale DisTricT. ATTer a Third elecTion no buyer could be Tound who would Talce The bonds because The Oalcvale DisTricT had refused To hold an elecTion. The board Then decided To ask The CounTy Supervisors To levy a special Tax Tor build- ing The annex, which was Then badly needed Tor commercial classes. The money was raised in ThaT way, and a dwelling on Elm STreeT was used unTil The annex was compleTed in l909. ln I9IO The loTs Tacing DouTy STreeT were purchased, wiTh The resulT ThaT The enTire Fresh-air Taxi Service of The I92O's

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sixTeen years. The pracTice Tor many years was To have Ten or Twelve members. Old records show +haT noT inTrequenTly iT was impossible To TransacT business because no quorum was presenT. The Tall oT I 893 Tound E. H. Wallcer as principal and C. C. Van Vallcenburgh The second Teacher. The Two new men boTh served The school Tor many years, and are boTh Tavor- ably remembered. As principal Trom I893 To I908, Mr. Walker was a progressive and waTchTul guardian oT The school's desTinies. He had been an elemenlrary principal aT Livermore, and while There had TormulaTed an acT To legalize The esTablishmenT oT union high school disTricTs in CaliTornia. HanTord High School's TirsT graduaTion was held on May 3I, I895, in The HanTord Opera House, which sToocl on The souTh side oT SevenTh STreeT near Irwin. The Three graduaTes were Amy Clarlce llvirs. Burroughs, laTer oT PorTervillel, Fannie Fallin llvlrs. Ed. WhiTe. San Franciscol, and EdiTh Ross llvlrs. George ArmsTead, oT HanTordl. AT The conclusion oT The program, The audience by a rising voTe expressed appreciaTion oT The school. The high school grew sTeadily, and on June l5, I895, The board voTed unanimously To call a bond elecTion To provide Tunds Tor The erecTion oT a new school building. The bonds, amounTing To S7,500, To run noT To exceed Ten years aT six per cenT, were ap- proved in The elecTion oT July I2, I895. Two hundred sevenTy-seven voTes were casT in Tavor oT The proposal and IO9 againsT iT. ln The Armona disTricT, which wanTed a high school OT iTs own, There was buT one Tavorable voTe. The conTracT Tor consTrucTion was leT To David Gamble, local conTracTor, whose bid was 56,867.00 J. M. HambleTon, a TrusTee, was appoinTed as inspecTor. The new building was dedicaTed on February 22, I896. DedicaTion exercises were conducTed on The TronT porch oT The school, which Taced The S udcrT Body and Fa:c3T,, l?92Al8?3

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block Then belonged To The disTricT. A small building was laTer erecTed on The norTh- wesT corner oT The block Tor The accommodaTion of new sTudies. Many minor buT necessary maTTers oT arrangemenT had To be meT as The school grew. A sTable Tor horses had a place on The loT Tor a Time buT laTer was replaced by one on land some disTance easT oT The school premises. When auTomobiles replaced horses in bringing sTudenTs To school, a garage was provided. Even The waTer supply presenTed a problem. During many meeTings The TrusTees con- sidered Tanks, pumps, windmills, engines, and elecTric moTors, and Tinally decided To give a conTracT To a Mr. KurTz Tor Turnishing waTer aT The raTe oT Ten cenTs per I,00O gallons. As The buildings aged and became inadeguaTe, and The need Tor space Tor physical educaTion and aThleTics became acuTe, The demand Tor a new planT and a new locaTion became urgenT. The adopTion ThroughouT The sTaTe oT a new physical educaTion pro- gram was a sTrong TacTor in making The new premises necessary. The TrusTees called an elecTion Tor November I2, I9I9, Tor The purpose OT voTing bonds amounTing To S350,000.00. The bonds carried, and arrangemenTs proceeded Tor The erecTion oT The presenT planT, an adeguaTe TracT oT land having been procured. BeTore The work was compleTed, iT became evidenT ThaT The Tunds would noT be suTTi- cienT, and anoTher issue oT bonds was soughT. On February 3 a proposal To issue bonds in The sum oT Sl50,000.00 was voTed down by a margin oT 48 voTes, buT The TrusTees called a new elecTion To be held on April 8. AT ThaT Time The amounT asked Tor was only 590,000 buT, wiTh a very much heavier poll, The issue Tailed by ISI voTes. No TurTher eTTorT was made To raise The money by bonds, buT The necessary Tunds were obTained Through The regular channels oT revenue and by The sale oT The grounds and The old building, which broughT 530,000 Since The occupaTion oT The main building in I92l, an almosT conTinuous program oT consTrucTion has been necessary. The gymnasium and The main shop building were Tol- lowed by The TirsT uniTs oT The sTorage garage and Haag Hall. FurTher uniTs oT The old sTorage garage were added, and The Tarm mechanics building was consTrucTed. Finally came The new sTorage garage, which is new This year. The laying oT cemenT walks and curbs, The paving oT The sTreeT Through The campus, consTrucTion oT Tennis courTs, and The erecTion oT Tencing have been some oT The numer- ous proiecTs which Tollowed The original grading and landscaping oT The grounds. OUT- sTanding among proiecTs oT This Type was The consTrucTion oT The aThleTic sTadium, which was Tinished in l935. ATTer Principal E. T-T. Walker leTT The school in l908, There was a Ten-year period during which Three diTTerenT men served as principals-l-larry Rode Trom l908 To I9I0, T. J. Roesman Trom I9I0 To I9I3, and Harry ShaTer Trom l9l3 To l9I8. ln l9l8 came Jacob L. Neighbor, The presenT principal. The many accomplishmenTs of The school and iTs unquesTioned high sTanding among schools oT iTs class are due in a large measure To The high caliber oT The men who have been iTs leaders, parTicularly The TirsT and laTesT, boTh oT whom served many years. Grounds of Hanvord Union High School, l92I THU' ut? 52 llllil EE...